Ludhiana

Ludhiana’s overwhelmed drainage system Ludhiana: The city applies pre-monsoon band-aids while its crumbling, decades-old drainage system continues to submerge entire suburbs.Cash-strapped municipal authorities are turning to university-designed underground retention cells to combat chronic monsoon flooding, but residents face another year of chaos before the trial goes live.Fund crisis has blocked the construction of a city-wide…

A transformer down with a power pole after a stormy night in Ludhiana. Weed being removed from a swollen Buddha Dariya in Ludhiana A transformer down with a power pole after a stormy night in Ludhiana. Weed being removed from a swollen Buddha Dariya in Ludhiana A transformer down with a power pole after a…

Water logged near Kundanpuri bridge in Ludhiana on Saturday Weed being removed from a swollen Buddha Dariya in Ludhian Water logged near Kundanpuri bridge in Ludhiana on Saturday Weed being removed from a swollen Buddha Dariya in Ludhian Water logged near Kundanpuri bridge in Ludhiana on Saturday Ludhiana: A sudden midnight deluge has cast serious…

GST scam, representational image Ludhiana: The state GST (goods and services tax) department has registered police complaints against three local firms, accusing them of cheating and forgery.The first case was filed at the Daba police station after inspectors discovered a company had used falsified identification documents to secure an official GST registration number fraudulently.Separately, the…

Ludhiana: A brazen thief was captured on security cameras praying to a temple deity before breaking open the donation box and stealing the cash inside.The man struck the temple in Ludhiana’s Prem Nagar area in the afternoon, timing the heist to coincide with the priest’s lunch break. Closed-circuit television (CCTV) footage showed the suspect had…

Representational image of an empty classroom Ludhiana: A couple charged with running a fake CBSE senior secondary school with 600 students for five years and outsourcing its final-year students to rival institutes to cover up a lack of credentials is on the run.Surinder Singla and his wife, Anita Singla, had hoodwinked Punjab’s transient workers into…

The targeted drive focused on eliminating stagnant water found in discarded tyres, scrap material, and storage containers. Ludhiana: The district health department on Friday launched an anti-dengue campaign targeting high-risk breeding grounds across Ludhiana, including Punjab Roadways workshops, PRTC bus depots, and adjoining junkyards. Field teams inspected 9,422 houses and checked 21,843 water containers across…

Earlier in the day, Bains toured areas including Model Town, Rishi Nagar, Samrala Chowk, and Chaura Bazaar to check static compactors and cleanliness. Ludhiana: Local bodies minister Harjot Singh Bains conducted a surprise inspection across Ludhiana on Friday to review the state govt’s ongoing sanitation drive. While the minister met with some field workers, high…

A civic body official, speaking on the condition of anonymity, revealed that large companies are reluctant to step in due to the upcoming assembly elections and fierce opposition from local garbage collectors’ unions, who fear losing their livelihoods if door-to-door collection is privatised Ludhiana: City residents questioned the municipal corporation’s new “Mission Clean Punjab” awareness…

Australian T20 cricketer Nikhil Chaudhary with his first coach, Charanjeet Bhangu, in Ludhiana Ludhiana: Nikhil Chaudhary, the leg-spinning all-rounder who moved to Australia for a birthday vacation and ended up in its international Twenty20 side, completes a remarkable journey that began in the cricket academies of this Punjab city.He received his maiden international call-up on…